Cleat and socket.



No. 811,186. PATENTED JAN. so, 1906. 0. WAITE & 0. F. FRALIOK.

OLEAT AND SOCKET. APPLIOATION FILED APB.14. 1905.

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CHARLES M. VVAITE AND CHARLES F. FRALIOK, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLEAT AND SOCKET.

Specifieation of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 30, 1906.

Application filed April 14:, 1905. Serial No. 255,607.

T at whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES M. WVAITE and CHARLES F. FRALICK, citizens of the United States, and residents of the borough of Manhattan, in the city of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,

have jointly invented certain new and useful Im rovements in Cleats and Sockets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices for supporting electrical conductors, which devices are at the same time provided with a socket for an electric incandescent lamp.

It is the object of the present invention to provide a combination cleat and socket which may be used in the open air, for which purpose it is necessary that the socket shall be weatherproof, so as to withstand the deteriorating efiect of exposure out of doors.

Thepurpose of this invention is carried out by constructing a cleat with a weatherproof socket and so arranging it in relation to the conductors for the electric current and the translating device giving the light that practically no metallic parts whatsoever are exposed.

With these and other objects in view the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and articularly pointed out in the appended c aims, it being understood that changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details may be made within the scope of the claims without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of the device partially broken away. Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Fig. 3 is a view from above, and Fig. 4 is a view of the device from below.

Similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

Referring to Fig. 1 of the drawings, the cleatholding the electric conductors consists of the members 1 and 2, provided with recesses 3 for the conductors, and screw-holes 4 for fastening the cleat to a support. The cleat is made of weatherproof material, such as porcelain, stoneware, composition, or other insulating material. The cleat member 2 is provided with a cup or socket member 5, which is integral with. one of the cleat members and is provided on. its outer side With. screw-threaded portion 6, extending substantially along its entire length. The cup 5 contains the usual openings for the wires 7 and 8, leading to the two terminals 9 and 10, located within the receptacle and serving to make contact with the two terminals of an incandescent electric lamp 13. The wires 7 and 8 are permanently secured to the socket by means of plaster-of-paris, sulfur, or the like in accordance with the usual practice in wiring devices intended for use in the open air. The screw-terminal of the cup 5, consisting of the metallic threaded socket 9, is held in position and at the same time separated from the cup or socket member 5 by means of an internally-threaded ring 1 1, of insulating material. A second ring 12, of similar material, is screwed upon the threaded portion 6 of the socket 5 in the position shown in Fig. 1 and serves to further protect any metallic parts of the socket of the lamp which may be exposed to the air. The wires 7 and 8 are spliced and soldered in the usual way to the feed-Wires supplying the electric currents, as illustrated in Fig. 3. The splicing may be covered with insulating-tape, as called for by the rules and regulations of the Board. of Electric Underwriters. This combination cleat and socket, which forms the subject-matter of the present invention, complies entirely to the rules of the authorities just mentioned, is perfectly weatherproof, simple in construction, and easy of application to its purpose.

What is claimed. as new and useful, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In a device of the character described, the combination with a two-part cleat, of a socket carried by one side of said cleat, terminals arranged in said socket and a pair of weatherproof rings, one of which lies between one of said terminals and the wall of said socket, and the other of which encircles said. socket.

2. In a device of the character described, a two-part cleat formed of weatherproof material, the members of said cleat being provided with opposed shallow depressions in their engaging faces for the reception of an electrical conductor, said members being further providedv with alined openings, means for securing the cleat to a fixed support and sin'iultaneously exerting a clamping pressure upon said electrical conductor, a socket integral with one of the members of the said cleat, terminals to which electrical conductors may be secured, means for insulating one of the terminals from the walls of the socket, and means secured to the outside of the socket adapted to protect the metallic parts of the socket and the lamp held therein.

3. In a cleat for supporting electrical conductors, a pair of cleat members, a Weatherproof socket secured to one of the members, electric conductors leading into the socket, terminals to Which the conductors are secured, means for insulating one of the terminals from the Walls of the socket, and means secured to the outside of the socket adapted to protect the metallic parts of the socket and the lamp held therein.

In Witness whereof We have hereunto set our hands, in the presence of tWo subscribing Witnesses, at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 30th day of January, 1905.

CHARLES M. WAITE. CHARLES F. FRALIOK.

In presence of RALPH JULIAN SAOHERS, MIMA M. RAMSEY. 

